Steve Jobs is easily one of the most complex and polarizing
figures of his generation, and any attempt to recount his life in a single film
could prove exhausting. So maybe it’s a good idea that Aaron Sorkin is
attempting to tell the Apple genius’ story in only three scenes.

The Oscar-winning screenwriter said the script he is working on
for a Jobs biopic will be set backstage before a trio of historic product
launches: the original Macintosh, the NeXT and the iPod.

Sorkin said he’s
been talking to many people close to Jobs, including Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak, while working on the script, noting that they were “people who
revere him in spite of the fact that he made all of them cry at one point or
another.”

The creator of The Newsroom said he
never met Jobs himself, although they had a phone relationship — the late Apple
leader would call him from time to time to comment on projects Sorkin had worked
on. Jobs also consulted the scribe on his now-legendary Stanford commencement
speech, and even once asked him to write a movie for Pixar.

“I didn’t think I would be able to make an inanimate object
talk,” the Social Network writer recalled from that conversation. “And
he said, ‘Once you make them talk, they won’t be inanimate anymore.’ … He might
as well have said, ‘Are you stupid?’ But it was warmer than that.”